My motive in translating A. Cabeza Pereiro was relatively simple. While at the University I discovered that only a limited number of Pacific scholars read Spanish. I thus thought it might be useful to translate something ...

The island of Kaho'olawe has been the focus of more than three decades of military bombing and training maneuvers by the U.S. armed forces. Since 1976, it has also been the focus of protest, sometimes volatile, by an ...

In this study I critique the youth bulge theory through the ethnographic sketches of five young Papua New Guineans. Youth bulge theory is a demographic-based global discourse that has become prevalent in the sphere of ...

The purpose of this thesis is twofold. The first part is to examine the immigrant Samoan population of Honolulu in light of Samoan behavioral norms, Samoan Christianity, and the history of Samoan migration to Hawai'i. The ...

For one to gain a complete understanding of the history of a nation like Hawaii, one would hope to learn about its people, especially the common people. History has not been kind to the maka'ainana (commoners) of Hawaii. ...

With respect to the Banaban phosphate mining case, an Historical review reveals the complex integration of native, foreign, individual and group interests at several economic and political levels. It is amazing how far the ...

In the Marshall Islands, the outrigger canoe has been at the heart of cultural life as well as practical survival for millennia. This thesis is an exploration of the state and shape of the canoe tradition for Marshallese ...

In the intellectual, political and cultural relationships between the West and Hawai'i, there consistently have been a one-way discourse of political mythmaking. The Hawaiians get reduced demographically, culturally and ...